Winter Accomplishment!

My winter accomplishment has been met. When i bought Orion i was told I would never be able to ride him without a bit. That was majorly wrong! I rode him for most of the summer without a bit. Now, this winter, I have started riding Orion with just a bale twine wrapped around his nose. Today, I was able to ride him around the paddock at a walk and trot! It was great! we did rollbacks, turns, lateral flexing, all with only a string around his neck!

Royal Equine!

YAY! Royal Equine is officially mine! Royal Equine Training business cards are coming out soon!
Royal Equine is named after Orion, Orions Crown Royal (who'd of guessed). He was the inspiration for this wonderful business idea! Royal Equine is in business! I am really excited! The business cards are personalized pictures of Lenanna with the barn cat, Fluffy, on her back. All horses will be accepted into training after a quick assessment in which I ride the horse for a quick session am make sure they are safe. Horses can be kept at your place, mine or the Tutt's after getting the okay from Beth.
Also available are lesson which anyone can take. We can use my horse or yours. I teach both Western or English beginner through intermediate. Once again horses must be previously assessed. I teach using a lot of natural horsemanship and expect my students to have intrest or a background in this type of training itself.

Orion to the States

One thing that I have to prepare myself for is moving Orion to the lower 48s. He will have to be hauled by strangers at least until Washington where he may have to be turned over to another horsey trasportation company. From there he will go to Montana where we will meet. All the while, I will be having to scout out the local stables and find the best deal for him. Hopefully everything will go smoothly, but I cannot find very much horsey transportation to the states. Mostly it is unprofessonal people who are making a random trip down to the states with horses.
Once I get Orion down there I have to buy a truck and trailer for school. It is a requirement. I must have a horse, and transportation to and from the school. Now how redneck is that?

States

I know I have been writing a lot about going down to the states for a summer job, but it would be a dream come true if I am actually able to go to the states to train horses! I have narrowed it down to two states, Maine or Colorado. I have heard back from two of seven or eight places. 1 has said maybe and the other one said no. The stable that said yes is called Andersen Stables in CO. It is a high class stable that shows paint horses. Maine is always available to me, but I really want to take O'Man. I don't think he would do well if I left him alone for three months, and he really doesn't like others riding him so I feel that I can't lease him out. What do I do?

Riding!

YAY! I rode for the first time in over a month yesterday! It was awesome! I rode both horses, Lenanna and Orion, And even though I stuck to a walk it still made my day. Sadly enough, I am already going stirr crazy from the cold. To make matters worse, I am not able to do ANYTHING physical because of surgery! The only difference I feel is that I sleep alot and get a rare pain in my stomach when I work to hard. I guess I shouldn't be complaning. Enerything went smoothly and I am alive! I really just want everything to go back to normal.

Yeasterday I got both horses out for the first time in a VEEERRRRYYYY long time. I took them down to the arena where they galloped around. Lenanna was very happy to get out and raced and bucked! It was pretty fun to watch and even Orion had fun! Snow was flying for a half and hour or so before i took them out and let them dig for some grass! It was a fun day!

Thanksgiving

I was Thankful this year. I was thankful that I had just gotten out of surgery and everything went well... and also that I couldn't load up on a ton of food in those 2 days. It wasn't very fun but I was able to go wish the horses happy Thanksgiving. Orion was happy to see me, Lenanna was just happy to see the treat I brought her. I now know who's loading up on the feed!